Open Access to Ranganathan

I know, I know, I’m like a Ranganathan fangirl. “The library is a growing organism! blah blah blah” But this is Ranganathan news that is current! And cool! The Digital Library of Information Science & Technology Classics Project has gotten permission from the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science to provide open access to many of Ranganathan’s works. There is some preliminary material scanned from the Five Laws of Library Science available already.

This is fantastic news that I just came across at Jessamyn’s librarian.net and at ResourceShelf. The Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) has granted the dLIST Classics Project permission to publish online and “provide